"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

I think that Alan Colmes implicitly raises one of the greatest questions a society can ask of itself: what information is passed from one generation to another?

In a mature nation, President Obama could go on TV and say, “Listen, we’re doing the best we can, but some terrorists are bound to get through.” But this is apparently a country that must be spoken to in childish ways.

And can you give one example of this nebulous “mature nation” of yours? How is this “maturity” measured, and maintained? The implication seems to be that maturity==indifference.

This is bunk, Alan. This President has gone on a literal world tour. Assuming for the moment that the tour is representative of the “maturity” for which you yearn, what have we bought for this “maturity” investment?

Here is an alternative theory, Alan: there is no aggregate “maturity” for the nation. The country remains 330 million individuals. Some information is indeed carried forward from generation to generation, but the “maturity” metric to which you allude may as well have emerged from the Climate Research Unit for all it’s grounded in any verifiable way.

If anything, political correctness has made the individuals in the country, on average less mature, in my opinion. The crushing of dissent in the name of Progress has had precisely the opposite of the desired effect.

As with the Israelites in the Old Testament, the individual citizens of these United States had a lot to lose. Like the Israelites getting hauled off into captivity, our national debt is our overlord. In the same fashion as those Israelites, we are beset with a set of useless prophets, for example, you.

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19 Responses to “The Nebulous Alan Colmes”

kas January 2nd, 2010 @ 11:19 pm

Good Lord, Alan was on O’Reilly this week and was absolutely hysterical (not the funny way) over peoples reaction to Obamas lack of reaction and whatnot. I honestly thought the guest-host was going to tell him to calm the hell down.

kas January 2nd, 2010 @ 6:19 pm

Good Lord, Alan was on O’Reilly this week and was absolutely hysterical (not the funny way) over peoples reaction to Obamas lack of reaction and whatnot. I honestly thought the guest-host was going to tell him to calm the hell down.

RSM,
Delightfully devious! Making the Brooks-Colmes connection. Alan now has sister-in-law Monica (a good woman for sure) and Mr. NYT, ivy pants-crease lover David himself in his coterie. Let Alan do the fisking!
-TR

RSM,
Delightfully devious! Making the Brooks-Colmes connection. Alan now has sister-in-law Monica (a good woman for sure) and Mr. NYT, ivy pants-crease lover David himself in his coterie. Let Alan do the fisking!
-TR

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